These and Those
Hear Sarah Haley read her poem: The gifts you gave me number two— One: perspective, science, the beauty of our inside matter But your best
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Progress Notes
Worlds apart, a street away
Editor’s Note: The following is a photo essay from MS2 Peter Nguyen. Cambridge St. is a simple, four lane road that separates the Texas Medical
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A first time for everything
I fidgeted uncomfortably, trying to hide the fact that my hands were shaking. Dr. Shepherd scrolled through the patient’s electronic medical records, leaning over with
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Not as loud as my heart: a reflection on a genetics seminar
Whenever I rush past the bulletin boards lining the halls on my way to another event that I’m late for, I fleetingly wonder how often
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Creative cardiology
A poem by Jingxiao Jin, MS1. The heart too has its dramas I know because I have felt with my fingertips–its thud against its prison; they
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Identifying details here have been changed to protect patient privacy. I knocked on the door of the examination room with my preceptor behind me and
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Losing Darren
Identifying details here have been changed to protect patient privacy. It wasn’t that the smile itself had an eerie quality—it was how the smile fell
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Dear professor…
Medical students receive training during their first months at Baylor College of Medicine in the anatomy lab. They learn from their instructors, through peer-to-peer learning
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Fracture registries and fjords – a Norwegian travel experience
Through Baylor Global Initiatives, I won a scholarship allowing me to travel to Norway for six weeks in summer 2015 and work with the orthopedic
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Chinle, Arizona: Navajo Nation
During my second year as a medical student I set up my own away rotation in Chinle, Arizona. Upon leaving the great state of Texas, I
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